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Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. 8K screens to see the Sagrada Família in detail ASC Cinematographers Premiere StEM2 Short Film at HPA Tech Retreat (2K, 4K and 8K test video content) The … Read more
An actual manufacturer event! After a couple of years of very few live events, Epson held a live launch of its latest rental/staging/installation projectors. I registered and got along to the Twickenham Rugby Stadium to have a look. After all, you have to see displays to get a sense of them. The EB-PU2220B is a … Read more
What They Say Nikkei reported that Sharp is beginning to benefit from the work it has done over time to develop displays for VR, especially since the Foxconn takeover in 2016. The Nikkei reported that Sharp is supplying more than a million high end VR displays per month and has become the largest supplier to … Read more
What They Say Acer seems to be continuing to surf the wave that was generated by Covid in its key areas and said that its revenues in February were up 12.7% on last year at $808 million and with the result for the first two months up by 9.7% YoY at $1.697 billion. Business highlights … Read more
What They Say Next TV reports that the Tennis Channel’s T2 content will be available on the Samsung TV Plus advertising supported service in the US. T2 is youth-targeted and will include matches from the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours as well as select matches from the French Open and International Tennis Federation events. … Read more
What They Say Roku’s CEO, Anthony Wood, has said at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, that smartTV makers will ‘eventually’ give up and license operating systems from Roku, Amazon or Google. He sees an analogy with the smartphone market which has converged on two key ecosystems. “We still have a lot of people using Samsung, … Read more
Baanto is pleased to announce that they are now shipping demonstrator samples of a 27-inch ShadowSense touchscreen that complies with MIL-STD-3009 NVIS requirements. Night Vision Imagining Systems are invaluable in a broad range of military applications to ensure that operators can execute missions regardless of ambient light levels. However, traditional touchscreen technologies have been unable … Read more
Dispelix, the leader in see-through waveguide displays for AR & MR wearables, and AAC Technologies Holdings Inc., the world-leading solutions provider for smart devices, announce a strategic partnership to ensure the AR & MR wearables industry has access to the highest quality see-through waveguide displays in the world. With the announcement, AAC becomes one of … Read more
The 8K Association, perhaps with a nod to the close timing of the annual US ‘state of the nation’ address, held a webinar to talk about 8K developments and technology. It was called ‘Seeing is believing: Everything you need to know about 8K in live broadcasting and professional displays’ – they didn’t add the “(but … Read more
What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samung has been attacked by a lot of users in Korea over reports that an add-in, the ‘Game Optimizing Service’, or GOS, may kick in to slow down the performance of apps on the latest S22 smartphones. The software add-in is designed to avoid excessive heat and … Read more
What They Say The Elec has continued to drip feed information (well, rumours, really!) about the expected switch by Apple to OLEDs for its iPads. As we reported last week, Samsung has started developing tandem structures for OLEDs for this application. (Samsung Display Begins Two-stack Tandem OLED development to win iPad order) The Elec has … Read more
What They Say DSCC said that 242 million OLEDs were shipped in Q4 2021, up 11% on Q3, bringing shipments for the year to 831 million, up 25%. Smartphones dominated with 638 million, up 27%, with Apple the top buyer with 29% share, compared to Samsung’s 22%. In Q1 2022, smartphones are expected to take … Read more
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